DENOSA is attending a two-day workshop on protecting the digital rights of workers in this fast-changing and digitized environment, courtesy of the Public Services International and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (trade union competence centre).
The workshop is held in Dunkeld West in Johannesburg.
With the increasingly digitalised society in all spheres, there are also endless infrengments of the constitutional rights of workers by employers who intrude their privacy by collecting data through various data systems, often unbeknown to them.
The data that is collected from every worker’s smartphone is so much that employers often make use of this at the expense of the worker’s rights.
A smartphone has no less than 14 sensors that employers make use of, such as GPS, microphone, proximity, temperatures…not to mention the endless cookies that employees always accept, thus giving away their personal information.
The workshop warns employees against the many HR applications that they are often required to put on their phones, as these tend to collect every bit of data about themselves, their whereabouts way beyond their working time, with some apps recording every conversation they have in their private space, making use of the microphone of their phones…
